Richardson Elite Patio Covers provides professional retractable & motorized screens in Richardson, TX for residential and commercial properties across the Telecom Corridor. Motorised screens are precision hardware. The housing, the side tracks and the bottom bar have to stay parallel within very little, or the fabric wanders in the channel and the motor stalls trying to close it.
On a house that is thirty or fifty years old, parallel is the hard part. We laser the opening before quoting. If the header has sagged or one column has settled, the correction happens in the substructure, not in the track. Shimming a channel straight against a frame that is still moving buys you one good season and then a service call.
Where an opening is beyond correcting, the honest recommendation is a manual roll screen or a hinged panel instead. Those tolerate imperfection. Putting a five-figure motorised system into a frame that has not finished moving is an annual repair bill, and it will be your bill rather than the manufacturer's.
On freestanding structures we build the problem disappears. The posts, header and tracks become one assembly on our own drilled piers, and they move together if they move at all. That is why a retractable screen goes in cleanly on a new pavilion and awkwardly on a 1975 patio, and why we sometimes propose the pavilion instead.
Wiring deserves a mention up front. Houses of this vintage rarely have an exterior circuit anywhere near the back patio, GFCI protection outdoors is often absent, and the service panel is frequently at capacity. We price the circuit in the original quote rather than discovering it on installation day and handing you a change order.
One more thing owners ask about is fabric choice. Solar mesh on the west opening cuts the glare that makes a Richardson patio unusable from four o'clock onward, while standard insect mesh elsewhere keeps the view open. Mixing the two across one structure is normal and costs nothing to specify at order.
With 15+ years of experience, our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — screw-chase extruded aluminum framing, 18x14 fiberglass insect mesh, 20x20 no-see-um mesh, pet-resistant vinyl-coated polyester screen, drilled belled piers below the active clay zone, hot-dip galvanized post base standoffs — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Richardson and nearby communities including Plano, Garland, Sachse, Murphy.
What We Handle
Everything our retractable & motorized screens in Richardson covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of retractable & motorized screens work in Richardson, TX. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- retractable screened porch
- motorized screen
- retractable screen system
- roll down screen patio
- motorized patio screen
- retractable insect screen
- power screen enclosure
- drop screen patio
- remote control patio screen
- retractable screen cost
- motorized shade screen
- garage screen door
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Richardson services.
Materials, equipment and how we do retractable & motorized screens
The difference between retractable & motorized screens that lasts and retractable & motorized screens that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with screw-chase extruded aluminum framing, 18x14 fiberglass insect mesh, 20x20 no-see-um mesh, pet-resistant vinyl-coated polyester screen, spec them to the job instead of to the invoice, and write the material grades into the free estimate so you know exactly what you are buying.
Every Richardson job runs the same way: site walk and measurements, written scope and fixed price, protection of the surrounding area, then the work itself with a daily clean-up. 15+ years of patio cover work in the Telecom Corridor means we have already met whatever your property is going to throw at us — awkward access, older construction, an HOA with opinions.
Where we do retractable & motorized screens outside Richardson
Richardson Elite Patio Covers covers Richardson and the surrounding communities of the Telecom Corridor. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- Retractable & Motorized Screens in Plano, TX — Collin County, incorporated in 1873, population 285,494 at the 2020 census
- Retractable & Motorized Screens in Garland, TX — Dallas County, incorporated in 1891, population 246,018 at the 2020 census
- Retractable & Motorized Screens in Sachse, TX — Collin and Dallas Counties, incorporated in 1956, population 27,103 at the 2020 census
- Retractable & Motorized Screens in Murphy, TX — Collin County, incorporated in 1958, population 21,013 at the 2020 census
- Retractable & Motorized Screens in Wylie, TX — Collin County, incorporated in 1887, population 57,526 at the 2020 census
- Retractable & Motorized Screens in Allen, TX — Collin County, incorporated in 1953, population 104,627 at the 2020 census
Start on the Richardson Elite Patio Covers homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Richardson Chooses Richardson Elite Patio Covers
- ✓Over 15 years building screen rooms and patio structures across north Dallas and Collin County
- ✓Drilled piers taken below the active zone of the clay, not shallow pads that heave
- ✓Hail-rated roof material specified as standard, because North Texas is the worst hail corridor in the country
- ✓We pull the Richardson or county permit and handle the HOA package where one applies
The standards behind retractable & motorized screens
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The retractable & motorized screens work we do in Richardson follows published industry standards: International Code Council writes the IRC provisions that govern attached covers and their footings, and FGIA sets the wind-load performance standards for glazed and framed products. If a contractor cannot tell you which standard a detail comes from, that is worth asking about before you sign.
Every retractable & motorized screens project in Richardson gets the same attention, whether it is a single room or a full commercial job. We show up on schedule, keep the site clean, and stand behind the work — the estimate is free and there is no pressure.
Ready to get started? Call (844) 511-2320 for a free retractable & motorized screens free estimate in Richardson, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.